LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 462, 6 February 1869, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The steamship Gothenburg, which arrived at the Bluff 011 the 2nd, left Melbourne at 4? p.m. on the 27th ultimo. The Alhntnbra was to leave Melbourne for Hokitika on the 3rd instant. Melbourne, Jan. 27. The meeting of Parliament is gasetted for the lltii of February. Th ree now cases of typhus fever have occurred among the Tornado passengers. A man named Lindsay has been committed for trial at Deniliquin for murdering another man named Harper. The Yan Yean reservoir has been sinking materially from the drought. The survey party under M'Donald have been dispatched to Gippslandto open up a road through to IS r ew South Wales. Mr Gr. Smith, of the Bank of Australasia, departs for Adelaide, as manager for the South Australian Banking Company. He is succeeded by Mr Elliott, the late manager for Ballarat. Intelligence has been received of the ship Hellespont being wrecked outside San Francisco. The captain and crew are missing. The City of Launceston, s.s., has been sold to Captain Lawrence for £3SO. It is rumored that Mullany, who turned Queen's evideuce on the indictment of the prisoners for the Clerk enwell explosion, has arrived here. Captain Turner, of the brig Derwent, reports that on leaving Welling-, ton, on the 13th ult., he was fired into by the master of the cutter Glimpse, with swan shot. Three additional cases of suspected small-pox have occurred at Heidelberg. A distillery plant for Dunedin is being manufactured here. James Fowler, late of Gill, Fowler, and Co., has filed his schedule. His liabilities are £27,000 ; assets, £20,000. Sydney . Mr Parkes has declined to give evidence before the committee respecting the Fenian conspiracy. Two Europeans have been committed for trial for the murder of aboriginals at Brisbane. The Chamber of Commerce has opposed the fortnightly mail via Suez preferring the Torres Straits route.

Tucker's stores at Mudgee have been burnt. An inquest has been held, and a Verdict of incendiarism returned against a man named Thomas Ryan, who has been committed for trial. Adelaide. It is stated that Chief Justice Hanleaves in the mail steamer for England. Riddiford, the bushranger, has crossed the Darling, and endeavored to stick up the mail, but the outrage was prevented by the presence of an armpd trooper.